Doug,
I am 73 so I think I know about carbon paper. I remember it as coming in
only one color. With this method you can transfer any woodgrain color
you want.
My hobby is restoring antique radios and often there is a situation
where some wood, strips across a speaker grill come to mind, have to be
replaced. If you can't find the exact wood you could;
Paint a piece of wood a light yellow-brown color.
Find your woodgrain on the internet and print it out in black and white.
Use this method to trace the woodgrain on the paper. Otherwise the grain
lines have to be painted by hand.
Add some spray toner if needed and apply your finish
Who knows. maybe someone here will have a restoration project where this
could be useful. I lurk here and post when information I have might be
useful to someone here. If it doesn't apply to any of your interests,
ignore it.
Check out this site. http://pages.cthome.net/ptf/photofin/photoFinish.html
It is very primitive and soon will be updated with lots more complete
information and pictures. Some way want to try it out and turn a cheap
wood box into something that looks like it was made of expensive woods.
Most will not. All I do is post information for everyones consideration.
Again, if it isn't useful to you. ignore it.
BTW, I am an artist and retired art teacher. I'll post a couple pictures
on the binary page showing my woodgrain artwork.
Stewart
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Doug Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Here's a quick way to transfer lines to wood and very cheap in the
long
run because if you keep the caps on artist's oil paint tubes they will
last for years and years.
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I guess you're too young to have ever seen carbon paper, huh?
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Doug,<br>
<br>
I am 73 so I think I know about carbon paper. I remember it as coming
in only one color. With this method you can transfer any woodgrain
color you want.<br>
<br>
My hobby is restoring antique radios and often there is a situation
where some wood, strips across a speaker grill come to mind, have to be
replaced. If you can't find the exact wood you could;<br>
<br>
Paint a piece of wood a light yellow-brown color.<br>
Find your woodgrain on the internet and print it out in black and white.<br>
Use this method to trace the woodgrain on the paper. Otherwise the
grain lines have to be painted by hand.<br>
Add some spray toner if needed and apply your finish<br>
<br>
Who knows. maybe someone here will have a restoration project where
this could be useful. I lurk here and post when information I have
might be useful to someone here. If it doesn't apply to any of your
interests, ignore it.<br>
<br>
Check out this site.&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://pages.cthome.net/ptf/photofin/photoFinish.html ">http://pages.cthome.net/ptf/photofin/photoFinish.html </a><br>
<br>
&nbsp;It is very primitive and soon will be updated with lots&nbsp; more complete
information and pictures. Some way want to try it out and turn a cheap
wood box into something that looks like it was made of expensive woods.
Most will not. All I do is post information for everyones
consideration. Again, if it isn't useful to you. ignore it.<br>
<br>
BTW, I am an artist and retired art teacher. I'll post a couple
pictures on the binary page showing my woodgrain artwork.<br>
<br>
Stewart<br>
<br>
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I am 73 so I think I know about carbon paper. I remember it as coming in
only one color. With this method you can transfer any woodgrain color you
want.
My hobby is restoring antique radios and often there is a situation where
some wood, strips across a speaker grill come to mind, have to be replaced.
If you can't find the exact wood you could;
Paint a piece of wood a light yellow-brown color.
Find your woodgrain on the internet and print it out in black and white.
Use this method to trace the woodgrain on the paper. Otherwise the grain
lines have to be painted by hand.
Add some spray toner if needed and apply your finish
(and I reply)
Thanks for the additional information. First time around you gave us a
solution to a problem we didn' tknow we had. Now you have supplied us with
a great tip for restoration work or specialty decorative trim.
Ed

Most all the replies here have said, "That's carbon paper." Thought at 45 I
am old enough to have used (and probably still have in several boxes <g>)
carbon paper, I think you came up with something novel and different.
- Your technique puts the transfer agent where it is needed; carbon paper
always left smudges all over my seconds.
- I've only seen carbon paper in 8.5" x 11" sheets. Your technique is
limited only by the size of the paper. I own a printer that can print 24"
wide by a mile long. Tom Plamann (an inspiration to us all <g>) has a
printer that can make a printout 54" wide by a mile long.
http://plamann.com/sys-tmpl/scrapbook/view.nhtml?profile=scrapbook&UID 013
Your technique works for large format printers; carbon paper, though
similar, fails entirely.
Thanks for thinking. I saved your post. ;-)
-- Mark

I'm still surprised. ;-) The OP came up with a DIY method that:
- is super cheap.
- doesn't require aligning another layer.
- doesn't have the possibility of putting marks where not intended.
- is trivially easy to store.
IMO <bseg> xRECers should be doing cartwheels about the OP's brainstorm.
-- Mark

Part of the confusion is that OP didn't describe up front what he was
using the method for. For faux graining wood it makes a lot of sense.
As a substitute for carbon paper, it's less useful, as a number of the
followups pointed out.
--RC
"Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells
'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets
fly with a club.
-- John W. Cambell Jr.

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